Just recently, the Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, and his wife and NINE CHILDREN, as publicity for the 250th, undertook, with corporate sponsorship, a Great American Road Trip, documenting it for a documentary film to be available on YouTube for free. As expected, the legacy media and the rest of the Angry Left are screaming for an Inspector General investigation of the project, because only they are allowed to have corporate sponsorships with no public input. The Left hates corporations, UNLESS those corporations are contributing to their campaigns (the Left would have no standards without their Double Standards).
Of course, one of the loudest voices screaming for an investigation would be our own Senator Halitosis, Patty Murray.
And here is the post just under the above one! Quintessentially America, don’t you think?
So I thought I’d post some photos from our Great American Road Trips. Our first big road trip was in 2010, when we drove from Everett, Washington to Hillsdale, Michigan and back, for Hillsdale Hostel. We took three total weeks, one to get there, a week for the Hostel, and a week to return. We took the Southern Route there, and the Northern Route back, and the trip was nothing short of spectacular. No motor mishaps, mostly great weather (June), lots of beautiful sights, and thousands of photos. Here are some.
Mount Rushmore from the front and the back. Quite a geology as well as a history lesson!
Devil’s Slide in Yellowstone National Park
Animals we saw in Yellowstone National Park.
Public art in Elkhart, Indiana. Brass instrument makers still have factories there, and they figure in The Music Man.
In the Shrine to Music Museum in Vermillion, South Dakota, we saw these two Glass Harmonicas. They make an ethereal sound when played. Benjamin Franklin made the first ones in America.
Spotted at the South Dakota Air & Space Museum
In Iowa, we raced this thunderstorm halfway across the state. We beat it to Des Moines by about one minute.
On the trip home we stopped in Wyoming to tour Devil’s Tower National Monument. Since we have lots of columnar basalt here in the Columbia River Valley, I tend to watch for it, and the tower certainly didn’t disappoint.
The most spectacular sights were at Glacier National Park in Montana. Going-to-the-Sun Road was under construction at the time, and I drove over Logan Pass that day in the fog. I admit, I had my heart in my mouth the whole way.
Everyone’s hope and maybe fear.
The Montana Highway Patrol chivvied us along after we had taken our picture
In 2013, we drove to Las Vegas and back for a Ricochet.com member meetup. I think our favorite stops on that trip were in Bryce Canyon and Zion National Parks. This was in mid-October and there was already snow on the ground in Bryce.
Now, I hope you are all inspired to gas up the car, load up the family, and go on a road trip. There is so much to see and learn about our America The Beautiful!
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